This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/313.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I'll have to look Saturday when I go to the His. Soc.library. They are a compilation of all the towns vitals as well as church and other records.

In a message dated 3/19/2003 8:09:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, kspirio@hotmail.com writes: > Thanks for your response Jeff. Could you tell me where to find Arnolds > Vitals-looked under R.I. genweb and didn't see it. > Hi, I saw your request re: Arnold's. I do not know of any free online sites for Arnold's but I do own a copy of Arnold's VR for Washington County, RI if you need a lookup in there. I got my copy from Higginson Books in Salem, MA. Donna in RI

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/313.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your response Jeff. Could you tell me where to find Arnolds Vitals-looked under R.I. genweb and didn't see it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Giorno Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XcB.2ACE/317 Message Board Post: I have had the most luck with one line of my family, Giorno. While researching, I came across a shipload of Giornos from Westerly. I have heard they are from the province of Cosenza in the region of Calabria in Italy but I would like to know what city. Anyone who has information about this, please email me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/313.1 Message Board Post: I do know that James was a Corwainer living in Charlestown (Misquamicut) I did have the children written down but can't find them now. I think they're listed in Arnolds Vitals of Charlestown.

> Subject: Mary Lewis > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:02:29 -0600 > From: "John A. Foster" <n4la@cafes.net> > To: "RIWASHIN-D@rootsweb.com" <RIWASHIN-D@rootsweb.com>, > john Foster <n4la@cafes.net> > LDS states that my ggg-grandfather Ambrose Foster married Mary Lewis and > that she was born in Westerly, Washington county, RI. It gives her birth > date as ca1720. They lived in the area of present Lincoln county, NC > before the Revolution and 96th district of SC after the war. Can anyone > give me info on her siblings and ancestors? Thank you for reading this. > John A. Foster > Petersburg, TN John, You are on slippery ground with this one. You need a better source than LDS. Do you mean the IGI, the Ancestral File, microfilm of some documents at the Family History Library or what? If the IGI or AF, then you need to look behind these to see what source the compilers were using. The AF in particular contains many errors. Now here is the problem with Mary Lewis in RI in the early 1700s. All the known ones are pretty well accounted for. The earliest known Lewis immigrant in RI is John Lewis who appears in Misquamicut (Westerly) in 1661. He had 8 known children - no Mary. John-2 had a dau Mary, b 1689. She m Richard Dake/Deake. David-2 had a dau Mary, probably m 1731 Joseph Lewis. (Records show that Joseph m Mary Lewis and the naming of Joseph and Mary's children suggest that it was Mary the dau of David.) Daniel-2 had a dau Mary, m John Langworthy. I don't have the list of Jonathan-2 or Samuel-2's children here at the office. But I don't believe they had any descendants named Mary born in the early 1700s because I also have a stray Mary that I have tried to identify. That brings us to generation 3. Joseph-3 (John-2) had children born between 1707 and ca 1730. He had a dau Mary, birthdate unknown. Myself and others have tentatively identified this Mary as being b ca 1710-1715 and as the bride of Nathaniel Lewis on 13 Nov 1729. Why the ca 1710-1715 estimated birthyear? We are trying to fit her birth between the births of the children with known birthdays and have her old enough to marry Nathaniel in 1729. Why do we think she married Nathaniel? Westerly and Charlestown records say that Nathaniel m Mary Lewis. There is no other known Mary Lewis around that could have married Nathaniel. Besides Mary Joseph-3 also had a son Amos. Nathaniel and Mary (Lewis) Lewis named their first son, Amos. Now you come along and throw in another Mary Lewis b ca 1720 into this confusing mixmaster. Our evidence for identifying Mary the spouse of Nathaniel is weak enough as it is without having to contend with another Mary Lewis with a birth within a time frame that could fit Joseph-3's daughter Mary. Continuing with other gen-3 Marys. John-3 (John-2) had a dau Mary, b 1723/4. She m William Hern. Nathaniel-3 (Israel-2) and Mary (Lewis) Lewis had a dau Mary b 1735. James-3 (James-2) had a dau Mary who m John Ladd. Her birth probably occurred ca 1715-1730. John-3 (James-2) had a dau Mercy. I have a hard time distinguishing between Mary and Mercy when I read the old records. Mercy was b 1726; m William Scrivens. There may be other gen-3 Marys that I don't show here in the stuff I have at the office, who would have been born after 1715 and be too young to have married Nathaniel in 1729. Your first step needs to be documenting the source of the information you have on your Mary Lewis. Migration out of Rhode Island to the Carolinas is not a typical 18th century migration path. Augustus Johnston left RI in disgrace and got an appointment from the King in NC in the 1760s. That was after he was hanged in effigy in Newport. My ancestor, Augustus Johnson Lewis (b 1759) was named for him before Augustus Johnston ran afoul of popular opinion. But Augustus Johnston would be the exception that sorta proves the rule. The big wave of migration out of RI did not begin until after the revolution and that was to the west, i.e. New York, some to Vermont, etc. There was some migration of Tories, of course, to Canada and the Maritimes. If your Mary Lewis did come from Rhode Island to NC, then I will stick my neck out and say that her parents and siblings are unidentifiable. That also gives us one more Mary than can be accounted for in RI records. We also have additional issues with respect to which Mary Lewis Joseph-3 and Nathaniel-3 married. Have you been able to locate Ambrose Foster in the RI records? Bill Wright

In Oct. 1711 there were several people that purchased 5300 acres in SE Hopkinton, Ashway, Tomaquag and SE Hopkinton City, that was called the Lewis Purchase. Does any one have records who shows who were the members of this purchase? Maurice Dake

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XcB.2ACE/316.2 Message Board Post: Margot, I forgot to mention that the Westerly Sun newspaper ran a hurricane edition on Sept 23, 1938 which detailed how Misquamicut and Napatree Point were wiped out and published a list of the dead and missing on the front page. Ongoing coverage reported stories of complete desolation, bodies stretched out in the old high school on Broad Street after morgues filled, bodies recovered in Stonington Borough and Charlestown, and yachts strewn helter-skelter along Main Street in Watch Hill. Hope this will help. Best Wishes, Melinda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XcB.2ACE/316.1 Message Board Post: Margot, Are you close to the Westerly area? One resource you could try is the Westerly Library. They have a collection on the Hurricane of 1938 as well as the microfilm of the Westerly Sun Newspaper. Since the storm was Sept 21, you might try searching from the 21st on for an article that is similar to your story. Hope this will help! Best Wishes, Melinda

Did you get the answer to your questions.? There must have been 10 to 15 houses out on that sandy strip.I could dig around if needed.

Thanks a lot, Jan. Mary seems to be the correct age. Now if I knew who her husband was. John RIWASHIN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > RIWASHIN-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 31 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [RIWASHIN] North Kingstown & Wickf [janedevlin@ameritech.net] > #2 RE: [RIWASHIN] Mary Lewis ["Janis Rodriguez" <ivakota@charter] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from RIWASHIN-D, send a message to > > RIWASHIN-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > RIWASHIN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [RIWASHIN] North Kingstown & Wickford, Washington Co., RI, inscriptions > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:49:53 -0500 > From: janedevlin@ameritech.net > To: RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > > I just uploaded inscriptions from the old graveyards in North Kingstown & > Wickford, Washington Co., RI. For those searching in other areas of Rhode > Island, Barrington, Bristol Co., RI, Baptisms, Marriages & Admissions, 1728- > 1740, are now on line also. > > Jane Devlin > Lake Orion, MI > janedevlin@ameritech.net > Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: RE: [RIWASHIN] Mary Lewis > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:56:29 -0500 > From: "Janis Rodriguez" <ivakota@charter.net> > To: RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > > John, > > Here are two possibilities from Arnolds Vital Records of RI. The way I > understand these volumes, Arnold grouped families together. Therefore I > have included the other apparent siblings, starting in 1719. Can the List > confirm this is how Arnold's works. > > Hope this Helps, > Jan > > 1719 LEWIS LEWIS John, of John, Jr., and Mary, April 19, 1719. 2 > 78 Birth Westerly > > 1722 LEWIS LEWIS Elisha, Dec. 30, 1722. 2 78 Birth > Westerly > > 1723 LEWIS LEWIS Mary, Jan. 22, 1723-4. 2 78 Birth > Westerly > > 1728 LEWIS LEWIS Joseph, March 2, 1728. Note--Also recorded 2-117. > 2 78 Birth Westerly > > - ------------------------------------ > > 1713 LEWIS LEWIS Hannah, of George and Elizabeth, Jan. 15, 1713. 2 > 107 Birth Westerly > > 1715 LEWIS LEWIS Samuel, Dec. 21, 1715. 2 107 Birth > Westerly > > 1716 LEWIS LEWIS Mary, Sept. 21, 1716. 2 107 Birth > Westerly > > 1719 LEWIS LEWIS James, Dec. 18, 1719. 2 107 Birth > Westerly > > 1722 LEWIS LEWIS Ebenezer, March 18, 1722. 2 107 Birth > Westerly > > 1723 LEWIS LEWIS Othniel, April 15, 1723. 2 107 Birth > Westerly > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John A. Foster [mailto:n4la@cafes.net] > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:02 AM > > To: RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [RIWASHIN] Mary Lewis > > > > > > LDS states that my ggg-grandfather Ambrose Foster married > > Mary Lewis and > > that she was born in Westerly, Washington county, RI. It > > gives her birth > > date as ca1720. They lived in the area of present Lincoln county, NC > > before the Revolution and 96th district of SC after the war. > > Can anyone > > give me info on her siblings and ancestors? Thank you for > > reading this. > > > > John A. Foster > > Petersburg, TN > > > > > > > > ==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > > Providence County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riprovid/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > > genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >

John, Here are two possibilities from Arnolds Vital Records of RI. The way I understand these volumes, Arnold grouped families together. Therefore I have included the other apparent siblings, starting in 1719. Can the List confirm this is how Arnold's works. Hope this Helps, Jan 1719 LEWIS LEWIS John, of John, Jr., and Mary, April 19, 1719. 2 78 Birth Westerly 1722 LEWIS LEWIS Elisha, Dec. 30, 1722. 2 78 Birth Westerly 1723 LEWIS LEWIS Mary, Jan. 22, 1723-4. 2 78 Birth Westerly 1728 LEWIS LEWIS Joseph, March 2, 1728. Note--Also recorded 2-117. 2 78 Birth Westerly -------------------------------------- 1713 LEWIS LEWIS Hannah, of George and Elizabeth, Jan. 15, 1713. 2 107 Birth Westerly 1715 LEWIS LEWIS Samuel, Dec. 21, 1715. 2 107 Birth Westerly 1716 LEWIS LEWIS Mary, Sept. 21, 1716. 2 107 Birth Westerly 1719 LEWIS LEWIS James, Dec. 18, 1719. 2 107 Birth Westerly 1722 LEWIS LEWIS Ebenezer, March 18, 1722. 2 107 Birth Westerly 1723 LEWIS LEWIS Othniel, April 15, 1723. 2 107 Birth Westerly > -----Original Message----- > From: John A. Foster [mailto:n4la@cafes.net] > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:02 AM > To: RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [RIWASHIN] Mary Lewis > > > LDS states that my ggg-grandfather Ambrose Foster married > Mary Lewis and > that she was born in Westerly, Washington county, RI. It > gives her birth > date as ca1720. They lived in the area of present Lincoln county, NC > before the Revolution and 96th district of SC after the war. > Can anyone > give me info on her siblings and ancestors? Thank you for > reading this. > > John A. Foster > Petersburg, TN > > > > ==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > Providence County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riprovid/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I just uploaded inscriptions from the old graveyards in North Kingstown & Wickford, Washington Co., RI. For those searching in other areas of Rhode Island, Barrington, Bristol Co., RI, Baptisms, Marriages & Admissions, 1728- 1740, are now on line also. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

...Okay...for what it's worth....the '38 Hurricane....My dad left the King Tom Farm, Old Post Road Charlestown RI with one of the biggest farm potato trucks they had...the thing could get through fairly high water...two ton, with a double-shift axle...and went down to the Charlestown Breachway....stopped at beach cottages all the way along Charlestown Beach...asking everyone he could find to climb on and come stay at the farmhouse... ....A few took him up on his offer... ....Most of the rest who wouldn't come...were never seen again.... ...Something similar happened at Watch Hill, Westerly....as I understand it, the Rector of the Episcopal Church...(Is it Christ Church, Westerly?) was down to Weekapaug where a Church event was taking place at one of the beach cottages, when high winds and rain came up. If I recall the story...he offered a ride back to Westerly to those present when he started back from the beach, and...of those who stayed behind, almost all were lost... ...To give everyone an idea of how capricious nature could be...our Browning cousins down on Matunuck Drift Road, (who have lived on the same property for about 8 generations now), went about their dairying and milking as usual, only momentarily reflecting on the rain and wind which appeared to be...somewhat intense, but not particularly out of the ordinary. Not more than a mile further south, down at the beach(today from Carpenters Beach, through Roy Carpenter's Beach, all the way to Green Hill)...whole blocks of beach cottages were being destroyed...along with the people in them.... ...The way my dad explained it...when the first of the Narragansett Purchasers came to the area, among other stories they heard from the resident Narragansetts/Niantics were tales of an occasional "Big Wind" which supposedly came through every few years.....but the accounts of the destruction attributed to these "Big Winds" seemed so...outrageous and obviously fictional....until the day came when these early settlers actually experienced one.... The '38 Hurricane struck Rhode Island some "12 years before I was even thought of"...but my perception of the event is/was shaped by the number of times when the subject came up, when I can recall a...distant, tragic look from someone I knew who survived it...the kind of shock, and even....a sort of sense of guilt that one had survived, when others hadn't....the sort of reaction I have only seen elsewhere from survivors of the Second World War.... ...For the generation who lived through it, the '38 Hurricane was a...defining moment....everyone can/could recall where they were, and what they were doing, when it struck....in much the same way that those of my generation remember what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot... Since the "King Phillip"/Metacom Indian War of 1675, it was the most distructive, devastating event to occur in the Rhode Island Colony. Wistfully, Barry Hale Browning

I remember the 1938 hurricane vividly. I was caught in East Providence and did not make it home for three days. Downtown Providence was a mess - looting taking place- the smells were terrible - everything in shambles. Let's hope it never happens again. Claire

LDS states that my ggg-grandfather Ambrose Foster married Mary Lewis and that she was born in Westerly, Washington county, RI. It gives her birth date as ca1720. They lived in the area of present Lincoln county, NC before the Revolution and 96th district of SC after the war. Can anyone give me info on her siblings and ancestors? Thank you for reading this. John A. Foster Petersburg, TN

After the hurricane there were so many dead that they turned the old Westerly High School into a temporary morgue. The school was located across the street from the present Westerly Town Hall and side of the Westerly library. John

Those houses were blown over to Barn island.

In a message dated 3/4/03 12:36:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, Margot62@aol.com writes: > I have some sketchy information and am wondering if anyone can help. I am > looking for information on a woman who was washed away with her house in > Westerly in 1938 during the hurricane. She presumably lived alone, had > older children who weren't with her at the time. She presumably drowned > and her house was destroyed. > She most likely lived on Napatree Point, which is in the Watch Hill section of Westerly. Before the '38 Hurricane, the point (actually a long sand spit) was lined with summer cottages. ALL were washed away during the hurricane and quite a few persons drowned as a consequence. Napatree was never rebuilt on and is now a nature preserve dividing Little Narragansett Bay (not to be confused with Narragansett Bay) and the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. There are stories of a few survivors who floated on debris from the wrecked houses several miles downwind to the Connecticut mainland in Stonington. JIM GIBBS

Many thanks for this reply and bit of historical info, it gives one an idea of the place as it probably was, I like your bit about people now buying up these places, the same thing is happening here only I would have said grabbing and sending them only into the millionaires bracket. T. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JamesHGibbs@aol.com> To: <RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [RIWASHIN] Query: Prudence Island = Portsmouth > In a message dated 2/25/03 12:03:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, > genevatm@comcast.net writes: > > > I have a birth in Prudence in 1757 and one known in South Kingstown > > 1793.(this is father and son) realise that these would be church records > > if even possible to find. > > Prudence Island is, I am almost positive, part of the Town of Portsmouth > (Newport County), so vital records should be found in Portsmouth. I am not > aware of any churches that ever existed on Prudence Island. The island had > no historic connection with Kingstowne (later North and South Kingstown) that > I know of. > > The only public access is by ferry from Bristol to the central east side of > the island, across the central passage of Narragansett Bay from Portsmouth. > The only protected harbor is Potters Cove, which is managed by the state -- > Potters Cove is near the NE corner of the island. The southern end of the > island has been off limits for years with underground munitions bunkers > associated with the Newport Naval Base. The SW corner of the island was the > site of a late 19th century Methodist church camp that never really took off. > > As a kid growing up on Narragansett Bay, there were no public roads on the > island, so one could drive there at any age without a license, but since a > car did not need to be registered there, most could barely run. > > Prudence Island is now quietly being grabbed by knowing insiders for vacation > lots. > > JIM GIBBS > > > ==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > Providence County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riprovid/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >